There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all creatures upon a minimum of such harm is the highest morality.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
